Urban Economics Association

Analysis

Urban Economics Association is a registered charity in United States, based in Houston, TX. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in May 2019, 7 years ago. Its declared purposes cover social science, which this site groups under arts, culture, heritage and science. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (gross receipts test) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Urban Economics Association reported income of $173k and spending of $220k, spending 127% of what it took in. Across the 2 years on record, from December 2022 to December 2023, income grew from $147k to $173k (+18%), an average of +18% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income rose by 18%. Over the whole period it spent 109% of the income it received.

Among 45,478 United States charities whose main cause is arts, culture, heritage and science and that reported income, Urban Economics Association sits at the 56th percentile: it is larger than about 56% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 50th percentile, and in the 54th percentile within TX. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Dana Thomas House Foundation ($173k), Women in the Enterprise of Science and Technology Inc ($173k) and Cakecutter Institute ($173k).

On its Form 990-EZ for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from program service revenue 100% of the total. At year end it held assets of $131k against liabilities of $1,418, net assets of $129k.